lipulin ang mga Panginoon!
lynch the Gods!
and hence for the last time / the children said, “we / are the producers of life, we / who forge times of war and peace, we / the last of the old, moribund, decadent men; / we the first of history.”
“the sun has branded us— / the wretched of the earth / slaves to hunger and reaction— / we will not inherit the world / we will burn it to the core, rebuild it / anew. take its future for ours by force / we cannot fear what belongs to us.”
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Fragments on Invariance
Personal reflections and notes on the invariance of Marxist doctrine and method, as elaborated in the tradition of the Communist Left The materialist denial that a theoretical “system” that had arisen at a particular moment in time (and, worse yet, one that had arisen in the mind and took shape…
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Bonifacio the Totem
Reflections against heroic idolatry “The social revolution […] cannot take its poetry from the past but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped away all superstition about the past. The former revolutions required recollections of past world history in order to smother their own…
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The Catechesis of Semifeudalism
Vulgar economy actually does no more than interpret, systematise and defend in doctrinaire fashion the conceptions of the agents of bourgeois production who are entrapped in bourgeois production relations. It should not astonish us, then, that vulgar economy feels particularly at home in the estranged outward appearances of economic relations…
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Is Marxism a “Science”?
As Prometheus, having stolen fire from heaven, begins to build houses and to settle upon the earth, so philosophy, expanded to be the whole world, turns against the world of appearance. Karl Marx, ‘Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy’ (1839). 1. Oxford Languages defines “Science” as “the systematic study of the structure…
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Struggle for Internationalism
Spanish (E/N: Excellent translation work done by our comrades at Tridni Valka (Class War Group), many thanks!) I reproduce here a polemical article, originally published on Marxist Forum in June 2025 during the Israel-Iran conflict, against various campist, defencist, social-patriotic calls and groups who identify themselves as “Marxists”. – US-ISRAEL…
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The Political Economy of Corruption
Preliminary notes on corruption and the peripheral-capitalist State; towards a critique of “Anti-Corruption” Metro Manila is drowning in shit and leptospirosis. Recent news, not at all old, believe it or not. A situationer In the recent weeks following sensational media stories and exposé of rampant corruption in flood control infrastructure…
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Indonesia, for the Maximal Program!
Indonesian / French / Spanish (E/N: Huge thanks to our comrades at Tridni Valka (Class War Group) and Komunis Internasionalis Kolektif (KIK) for publishing these translations.) – Statement of Solidarity Marxist Forum — Metro Manila7 September 2025 Although part of a long wave of mass urban mobilizations spanning years, the…